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Offline tat2snbooze

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Need some guidance from the pros.  I'm just getting started with this hobby.  Just running one prop (3 row coro star) with 90 12V pixel nodes. Lights are running off of ESP8266 nodeMCU flashed with WLED.  When using the WLED UI everything works as advertised. 

I then started venturing into the xlights realm to see if I could handle the sequencing element of this hobby.  I got the star all set up correctly and pushed the sequences directly to the star via the sequencer tab and my show lit up as advertised.

I bought a new Raspberry Pi3, set it up and have installed FPP.  I can login to the FPP UI over my network with no issues.  I've imported the fseq file from xlights to FPP and confirmed it is playing the sequence on the status page.

Here is where I'm stuck.  Despite setting up the control output to unicast, setting as priority 1 and using the IP of the nodeMCU, the star continues to only display as directed from WLED.  If I push the show from xlights, the star lights up with the fseq show.  If I push from FPP, no dice.

So all that to ask this question.  Am I able to push fseq data via my Raspberry Pi with FPP directly to the nodeMCU or do I have to buy a Falcon controller to make it work?

I've scoured the interwebs and this seems to be the one piece of the puzzle I cannot figure out.

Thanks for helping a noob!

Offline Gilrock

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Re: Noob needs help! Controller or no controller, this is the question...
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2019, 12:34:58 PM »
To be honest I keep seeing these nodeMCU's mentioned and I just run away.  Whoever keeps suggesting those should help you out.

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Re: Noob needs help! Controller or no controller, this is the question...
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2019, 03:58:41 PM »
Fpp can absolutely run your node Mcu. You just need to sort out your networking.

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Re: Noob needs help! Controller or no controller, this is the question...
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2019, 03:59:27 PM »
To be honest I keep seeing these nodeMCU's mentioned and I just run away.  Whoever keeps suggesting those should help you out.
It is the home automation crowd bringing a new wave of popularity to these very problematic devices.